- July 8, 2021
- Posted by: Stratford Team
- Category: Business
A logo of Panasonic Corp is pictured at the Combined Exhibition of Advanced Technologies at the Makuhari Messe in Chiba, Japan, October 2, 2017. REUTERS/Toru Hanai/File Photo
TOKYO, July 8 (Reuters) – Panasonic Corp’s (6752.T) new CEO on Thursday said the Japanese company’s battery supply relationship with Tesla Inc (TSLA.O) remains strong even after it sold all its shares in the U.S. electric carmaker.
“The sale has not hurt the relationship with Tesla,” Yuki Kusumi said at a press roundtable, when asked whether the sale indicated that their partnership was weakening.
In the year to March 31 Panasonic in sold its stake in Tesla for about 400 billion yen ($3.62 billion) to help to pay for the acquisition of U.S. supply chain software company Blue Yonder in a deal worth $7.1 billion. read more
Kusumi took over from Kazuhiro Tsuga in April and leads the conglomerate as it begins to profit from a decade-old partnership with Tesla that accounts for about…
